Filter This View

  • August 12, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    Summer associate class sizes up in 2011

    After shrinking to their lowest levels in recent memory last year, summer associate classes at more than 70 leading law firms grew at least modestly this year and the average summer class siz

    1 minute read

  • February 22, 2011 | International Edition

    Another BigLaw Firm Doles Out Extraordinary Spring Bonuse

    LONDON - Linklaters has followed Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in handing out spring bonuses to its US associates for the first time.

    1 minute read

  • September 26, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Suit Adds to Cadwalader's Woes

    NEW YORK � As the global slowdown in the market for mortgage-backed securities threatens a core practice area of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, the New York law firm is also wrestling with

    1 minute read

  • February 18, 2011 | New York Law Journal

    Obituary: Daniel McCarthy

    Daniel McCarthy, a senior trial assistant district attorney and director of trial training in the Bronx District Attorney's Office, died Tuesday at his Queens home after a massive heart attack. He

    1 minute read

  • January 13, 2011 | New York Law Journal

    NY Lawyers Closing Billion Dollar Deals

    Wachtell, Skadden, Hunton Advise $13.7 Billion Public Utility MergerDuke Energy will spend $13.7 billion to acquire Progress Energy, creating the nation's large

    1 minute read

  • August 19, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Debevoise, Skadden and Cravath Help Put Hefty Transaction in the Bag Pactiv, the maker of Hefty trash bags, has agreed to be acquired by Reynolds Group Holdings

    1 minute read

  • June 1, 2006 | The American Lawyer

    The Mighty Quinn

    There's nothing subtle about Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges. Visitors discover this when they're greeted by a sign-"Quinn Emanuel-Trial Lawyers"-in the lobby of the firm's main off

    1 minute read

  • December 5, 2008 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Mergers & Acquisitions

    J&J To Pay $1B for Mentor Corp. Pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson , based in New Brunswick, agreed on Dec. 1 to pay $1 billion for Mentor Corp./s

    1 minute read

  • July 14, 2011 | Legal Times

    Two NY Lawyers Get Senate Committee's OK for Bench

    The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee voted today to move ahead with five of President Barack Obama's judicial nominees, including two for the high-profile U.S. District Court for the Southern Distri

    1 minute read

  • May 1, 2008 |

    Charles Verhoeven, 44

    Terry McMahon, head of McDermott Will & Emery's IP practice, doesn't mince words: "Charlie Verhoeven is one of the great trial lawyers," McMahon says. Fine praise from the opposing couns

    1 minute read